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Iraq Beyond the Headlines : History, Archaeology, and War.
This book is the first authoritative and up-to-date survey of the history of Iraq from earliest times to the present in any language. It presents a concise narrative of the rich and varied history of this land, drawing on political, social, economic, artistic, technological, and intellectual materia...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
2005.
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| Colección: | Series on the Iraq War and its consequences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Series on the Iraq War and Its Consequences ; |v v. 2 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1 Beginnings Modern and Ancient; 1. What is Iraq?; 2. The Birthplace of Civilization; 3. Production of Food: An Important Transition for the Human Race; 4. Settlement in the Plains; 5. A Durable Peasant Culture; 6. The First Cities; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 1; Chapter 2 Early City States and Empires; 1. New Polities; 2. Ur of the Chaldees; 3. The Rise of Kingship; 4. The City Shuruppak; 5. Lagash Nippur and Umma; 6. Akkad: The First Empire; 7. The Kingdom of Ur; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 2; Chapter 3 The Age of Hammurabi. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1. The Amorites and Their Way of Life2. Shamshi-Adad King of Northern Mesopotamia; 3. Rim-Sin King of Larsa; 4. Hammurabi King of Babylon and His Laws; 5. Law Society and Literature; 6. The End of Amorite Period; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 3; Chapter 4 A Babylonian Nation-State; 1. The Kassite People and Their Society; 2. Kassite Government; 3. International Relations; 4. Kassite Civilization; 6. Hurrians in Mesopotamia; 7. The End of Kassite Rute and the Renewal of Isin; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 4; Chapter 5 The Assyrian Achievement; 1. The Land and Its City. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2. The First Assyrian Empire3. The Second Assyrian Empire; 4. Two Assyrian Kings; 5. Assyrian Cuiture of the First Miiiennium B.C.E.; 6. The Fall of Assyria; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 5; Chapter 6 Babylon and Her Empire; 1. The Land and Its City; 2. Babylonian Economy and Society; 3. Babylon and the World; 4. The Persian Empire; Bibtiographicat Note to Chapter 6; Chapter 7 Mesopotamia between Two Worlds; 1. Alexander the Great and His Successors; 2. Life in Hellenistic Babylonia; 3. Babylonian Cuiture and Economy; 4. The Rise of Parthia; 5. Parthian Society; 6. Parthian Mesopotamia. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7. Rome in Mesopotamia8. Parthian Cities; 9. The End of Mesopotamian Civilization and the Downfall of Parthia; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 7; Chapter 8 Iraq between Iran and Arabia; 1. The Sassanians and Their Subjects; 2. Sassanian Civilization; 3. The Sassanian Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire; 4. Arab Settlement in Mesopotamia; 5. Western Asia in the Seventh Century; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 8; Chapter 9 The Muslim Conquest of Iraq; 1. The Mission of Muhammad; 2. Arabian Catiphs and the Conquests of Iraq; 3. Islam and the Arabs in Iraq; 4. Leadership of the Muslim Wortd. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5. Divisions within Islam6. Commerce and Business; 7. Deveiopments in Arabic-Islamic Culture; Bibilographical Note to Chapter 9; Chapter 10 The Age of Baghdad and Samarra; 1. The Abbasid Catiphate; 2. Baghdad and Its Civitization; 3. Samarra and the Growth of Local Dynasties; 4. Medieval Iraq; 5. The Transition Movement; 6. Decline and Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate; Bibliographical Note to Chapter 10; Chapter 11 Iraq in the Ottoman Empire; 1. Iraq under Mongol Rule; 2. Iraq under Turkish Rule; 3. The Ottomans and Their Subjects; 4. Mamluk Iraq; 5. Ottoman Weakness and Reform. | |
| 500 | |a 6. Iraq in the Late Nineteenth Century. | ||
| 520 | |a This book is the first authoritative and up-to-date survey of the history of Iraq from earliest times to the present in any language. It presents a concise narrative of the rich and varied history of this land, drawing on political, social, economic, artistic, technological, and intellectual material. It also includes excerpts from works of ancient, medieval, and modern literature written in Iraq, some of which are translated for the first time into English. The final chapters provide an introduction to the history of archaeology in Iraq, set in the wider context of the development of archaeolo. | ||
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